Radeon HD 6990M vs GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Radeon HD 6990M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 12 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6990M
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    101%
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6990M

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 745 OEM

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6990M .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6990MGeForce GTX 745 OEM
GPU NameBlackcomb (Blackcomb XTX)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,700 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders1120vs384
Compute Units14vs3
Core clock715 MHzvs1033 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs56vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6990MGeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6990MGeForce GTX 745 OEM
TDP100 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date12 Jul 2011vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    22.88 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    40.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    115.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    1601.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6990M
    3190
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    3140

Points (higher is better)